The Apologetics Study Bible

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1. I went into a Christian bookstore yesterday and ran into this new bible from Holman.

2. So I thumbed through it and left rather impressed. I'm thinking about getting one. Anyone here has one already? It's fairly new.

The Apologetics Study Bible

Real Questions. Straight Answers. Stronger Faith. The Apologetics Study Bible will help today’s Christians better understand, defend, and proclaim their beliefs in this age of increasing moral and spiritual relativism. More than one-hundred key questions and articles placed throughout the volume about faith and science prompt a rewarding study experience at every reading. Highlights of this new thinking person’s edition of God’s Word include the full text of the popular Holman Christian Standard Bible® translation, two-color page layout, an introduction to each Bible book focusing on its inherent elements of apologetics, and profiles of historic Christian apologists from Justin Martyr to C. S. Lewis. Also featured are valuable contributions from a who’s-who of modern apologists such as Chuck Colson, Norm Geisler, Hank Hanegraaff, Josh McDowell, Albert Mohler, Ravi Zacharias, J. P. Moreland, and Phil Johnson.

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I've long wanted two study Bibles: one that covers languages and history in detail, and one that covers apologetics in detail. I'm still looking for either of these, but this Bible, at least in intent, sounds like a step in the right direction. If they ever come out with an NASB version, I'll be interested.

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1. I just got my copy. It has two ribbon marker, 10/10.5 font, wide margin, textual notes at the book with variant readings and so on, and under that you have your study notes.

2. In the NT, quotes from the OT are bold and when they are three lines or more, they are set off in a poetic form.

3. There are apologetic articles two pages the most featured between chapters; there's feature called "twisted Scripture" where a that particular Scripture is look at; for example, John 9:2, Does it support reincarnation?

4. There's a sort of a dictionary in the back, good, I must say. Then apologetic charts and an annotated apologetic bibliography, plus your usual maps.

5. The binding is great and so are the paper used for the Bible, not too thin. The two ribbons are only in the Bonded and Genuine Leather, one in the Hardcover, one nevertheless. :laugh:

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I bought their Illustrated Study bible last year. Boy, I wish I would have waited! This looks like a keeper. I really like the HCSB, as next month I will have finished the Bible through. Maybe I will have to donate mine, and purchase this one.

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I have spent a few days with the Apologetics Study Bible. I have it in brown leather.

Here are a few thoughts.

1. I like the leather and binding it is of good quality and looks nice and feels like a solid craft.

2. HCSB is a good translation, it is easy to understand (for me English is a second language and I am not born around 1611), but at the same time quite literal and and in places there are notes that often give a more literal translation. So it is good for general reading, but also OK for study.

3. There are no cross references or chain topics. I have gotten used to follow chain topics in the Thompson Chain Reference Bible and I use cross references in my Swedish Folkbibeln and in my Scofield HCSB. For me the lack of cross references and chain topics means that this can not be my only study Bible.

4. I have found what I have been looking for in the book introductions.

5. I love the articles on different topics of apologetics. A page or to can be a little short for a topic, on the other hand I have in one book many topics covered and there is in the end of the Bible a bibliography of recommended books to research a topic deeper. For me only to have the articles is value for money, I really like them.

6. The notes are as you can expect slanted to apologetics. I have found what I expected, I like the notes. The notes I have checked has been solid evangelical, they do not prove more than the Bible clearly tell but is in the same way faithful to the Bible.

7. The twisted scripture feature is very interesting, consists of explanations of verses that various cults has built wrong theology from and tells why the cults are wrong.

8. There is and index and a concordance.

Conclusion (after a few days study by a layperson)

Lack of cross references and chains topics means for me that it can not be my only study Bible. But for general reading and for studying apologetics it is very good, for me it has secured a place in my study library among Swedish Folkbibeln, the Scofield (in HCSB), the Thompson chain (NKJV), wide margin KJV and wide margin NIV. I really like browsing for a topic of apologetics and learn, and also to read a chapter and see it from an apologetics perspective.

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I've got an Evidence Bible which has some of the same info in it, but when i first saw the Apologetics Bible a couple of weeks ago i thumbed through it and really liked it. I'm hoping to convince my wife that i do "need" another Bible.:thumbs:

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I've got an Evidence Bible which has some of the same info in it, but when i first saw the Apologetics Bible a couple of weeks ago i thumbed through it and really liked it. I'm hoping to convince my wife that i do "need" another Bible.:thumbs:

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